K. Anders Ericsson
HBR’s 10 Must Reads on High Performance Various Contributors and HBR Editors Harvard Business Review Press (May 2022) “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” Aristotle’s insight refers to organizations as well…
Read MoreHere is an excerpt from a “classic” article written by the late K. Anders Ericsson, Michael J. Prietula, and Edward T. Cokely for Harvard Business Review (July–August 2007) and the HBR Blog Network. To read the complete article, check out…
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Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise K. Anders Ericsson and Robert Pool An Eamon Dolan Book/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (April 12016) Why some people are amazingly good at what they do…and why so many others aren’t In “The Making…
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Grit to Great: How Perseverance, Passion, and Pluck Take You from Ordinary to Extraordinary Linda Kaplan Thaler and Robin Koval Crown Business (2015) “Champions get up when they can’t.” Jack Dempsey Angela Lee Duckworth is among the sources that Linda…
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As you no doubt know already, an urban myth is an immensely popular story or piece of information circulated as true but is in fact bogus. Two examples in ancient times: the earth is flat and the moon is made…
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The Genius in All of Us: New Insights into Genetics, Talent, and IQ David Shenk Anchor Books/Random House (2011) How and why “genetic influence itself is not predetermined, but [rather] an ongoing process” Whereas in Denise Shekerjian’s book, Uncommon Genius,…
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Here is an excerpt from an article that appeared in the Harvard Business Review (July/August 2007). It was co-authored by K. Anders Ericsson, Michael J. Prietula, and Edward T. Cokely You can purchase a copy of the complete nine-page article…
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The Winning Factor: Secrets from a Veteran Olympic and Corporate Coach Peter Jensen AMACOM (2012) How and why a “development bias” can help you to become very best you can be Opinions vary as to what the decisive factor is for an individual to win or…
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HBR’s 10 Must Reads on High Performance: A Book Review by Bob Morris
HBR’s 10 Must Reads on High Performance Various Contributors and HBR Editors Harvard Business Review Press (May 2022) “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” Aristotle’s insight refers to organizations as well…
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